SEC adds two tough foes to Vols' schedule

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🗓️ 8 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Patrick Brown convened via the magic of Al Gore’s Internets to discuss Auburn and Texas A&M being added to Tennessee’s 2020 football schedule.

The SEC on Friday night announced the two new league opponents for every team in the league, and Tennessee inarguably got one of the tougher draws. The Vols were given a road game at Auburn and a visit from from Texas A&M. Auburn is ranked No. 11 in the preseason coaches’ poll, and Texas A&M is ranked No. 13.

Why did the SEC decide to tinker with the schedule as opposed to just fast-forwarding the rotation that was already in place? Why didn’t the league just have a random lottery drawing? Who are the league's winners and losers in this deal? How tough will those matchups be for Tennessee? Was this scheduling news a good thing, a bad thing or both for the Vols? Those are the primary topics discussed in this one-segment, breaking-news episode.

The next GoVols247 Podcast episode will be released Monday, unless major breaking news occurs before that point.

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0:00.0	Hi. What's up y'all? Welcome on into the GoValls 24-7 podcast. Westrucker coming to you from
0:18.9	Fort Rucker Studio and as you can tell by the truncated version of this intro, it's a breaking news edition of the GoValls 24-7
0:26.6	podcast, not just me from Parts Unknown across town, somewhere in the 865 area code.
0:33.4	We've got the one the only Patrick Brown and Pat,
0:36.7	breaking news.
0:37.9	I'll let you go ahead and break it down for the people.
0:40.6	Why are we having this episode? Yes Wes the long weight is over.
0:45.0	The SEC has come out with the two additional cross division games
0:50.0	for everybody on their 10 game SEC only scheduled for 2020 and for
0:54.0	20-20 and Tennessee,
0:55.0	things have gotten harder.
0:57.0	They've also added a trip to Auburn
0:59.5	and a home game with Texas A&M
1:01.0	to their schedule, and now are set to play five of the top 13 teams that were in the coaches
1:08.8	preseason poll that came out earlier this week.
1:11.2	Yeah, there were basically there are two teams in the SEC that it's
1:16.6	an SEC schedule so it's going to be tough regardless but basically there were six
1:20.6	SEC teams in the top 13 of the coaches poll.
1:23.2	Arkansas will be playing all six now.
1:25.8	Tennessee will be playing five of the six.
1:28.1	The Vols were given a trip to Auburn for the second time,
1:31.6	and I guess it'd be three years I suppose and a home game against
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